LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

ACROSS: 1 Dump, 3 Implicated, 10 Taste, 11 Singleton, 12 Composing music, 14 Melodrama, 16 Emcee, 18 Nanna, 19 Executive, 20 Good-for-nothing, 24 Kitchener, 25 Raita, 26 Escape road, 27 Amid.

DOWN: 1 Detachment, 2 Musk melon, 4 Masai, 5 Landgrave, 6 Culture vulture, 7 Tutti, 8 Deny, 9 Second-hand shop, 13 New England, 15 Ale-conner, 17 Criticism, 21 Optic, 22 Norma, 23 Skye.